Minister said, Foreign Office became victim of cyber attack and we do not know who did it

the UK foreign Office A minister has admitted it was hacked in October, leading to fears that thousands of confidential documents and data may have been compromised.

While the minister is “quite confident” about this visa applicant‘While details could not be reached, they admitted they were not sure of the identity of the hacker.

sources told Sun The Storm 1849 group was responsible for this rental In October, a Sugar The organization that was publicly named in connection with cyber attacks on MPs in March 2024 election Commission.

The newspaper reported that “thousands” of confidential documents and data were recovered. data breach,

trade minister sir chris bryant acknowledged that there “definitely has been a rental“, but he declined to say whether a Sugar-linked group was behind it, which claimed that the widespread reports were not entirely true.

Speaking to Times Radio, Sir Chris said: “I’m actually going to take some of the details that you’ve just put forward, because I’m not sure they’re necessarily accurate.

“You just mentioned potentially thousands of visas being affected. We are confident that from the investigation we have done so far, no one, no one, will be harmed or compromised by what has happened.

“There’s definitely been a rentalI can say this, I am not able to say whether it is directly related or not Sugar operator or actually Sugar State.”

He said: “We have been engaged in the investigation since October [Jaguar Land Rover] And M&S, and the British Library, and a whole range of other cyber attacks, it takes some time to get to the bottom of what has happened.

The latest reports come amid continued uneasiness after this Chinese espionage case closed And Warnings by MI5 about the threat posed by the communist state As for Britain’s national security, the government’s difficulties have increased as it seeks to reduce tensions with Beijing.

And last week, Parliamentary intelligence monitoring body issues strong warning on threat posed by ChinaSaying Government We need to stop “digging in our heels” on whether to add or not Country till Advanced level of threat governance,

A government spokesperson said, “We are working to investigate a cyber incident. We take the security of our systems and data extremely seriously.”